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Fill in the trade licence form

The single registration form (jednotný registrační formulář) notifies a free trade, the kind most freelance work needs, and on the same paper tells social security and your health insurer. Answer in your language and download it filled in, with its list of fields and the annex for social security.

Your answers

Your browser fills in the form: nothing you type is saved, and it’s gone when you close the page. Only what you type into an address search is sent to Bytky, to find the address in the register, and it isn’t kept.

You

Only a title you use in business, such as Ing. or Mgr.

Such as Ph.D., only if you use it in business.

Every surname you’ve had apart from your surname at birth.

Written on the form in Czech, as the office expects.

Only if you’ve been given one, as on a Czech residence permit. Without it, the form asks your sex.

Asked only without a birth number: the other word is struck out on the form.

Only if you’ve been given one before, for an earlier business.

Where you live

Only permanent residence (trvalý pobyt) counts as living here. On a visa or another permit, the form calls you a foreign person and asks your address abroad.

If it has, the form also asks your address here and how long you may stay.

Your address in Czechia

Type the street and house number, or a postcode, and pick the address: it fills in the fields below. Not on the list? Type it in the fields yourself.

As 1234/5: the land-registry number (číslo popisné), then the street number (číslo orientační).

Such as Vinohrady or Žižkov.

Such as Hlavní město Praha or Brno-město.

The end date on your visa or residence permit. Leave it empty if your document has none.

Your address abroad
Your place of business

The address the trade register shows for you. You choose it, and it must be where your business really is.

You show that you may use it: the owner’s written consent is enough. If you own it, the office checks the land registry itself.

Your trade
The fields you’ll work in

From the Act’s list of the free trade’s fields: pick every one you’ll work in. The fee is the same however many you pick.

No field picked yet

Fields freelancers often pick

Social security and your health insurer get it as the day your business starts.

Where you work

A shop, workshop, studio or office, other than your place of business, where you run your trade. The form takes one only if you start there straight away; otherwise you tell the office before you start.

Social security

The trade office passes it on, and the form gets its annex for social security.

Your business for social security

The town of the office for your address, such as Praha 2.

Secondary if you’re also employed, get a pension, care for a child under 4 or a dependent person, or study.

Sickness insurance

It’s voluntary for the self-employed, and pays sick pay, maternity and paternity benefit and long-term carer’s benefit.

What else social security asks

On the day your business starts.

At the same time as here.

Yes if this business is the first paid work you do in Czechia since your pension insurance abroad ended.

Health insurance

Only if you’re in Czech public health insurance. Without permanent residence you are if, for example, you work for a Czech employer, have temporary protection, are an EU citizen working for yourself here, or Czechia insures you under the EU’s coordination rules (Regulation 883/2004).

Your health insurer

The branch for where you live, such as Praha.

As 123456789/0800, or with a prefix 19-123456789/0800. Only if you already have it.

In your first year, at least the minimum unless you choose more: for a main activity, 3,306 Kč a month in 2026. There’s no minimum if a job already pays your health insurance.

Where the office sends letters
How the office can reach you

If you have one. Phone, data box and e-mail are optional.

What you add to it

You don’t register for income tax: the Income Tax Act asks that only of legal entities, such as companies. Add a Ministry of Finance form only to hand it in on the same visit; the form then marks the tax office in part E.

Signing

Then

  1. Print every page and check each line: the list of fields and the annex for social security are part of the file.

  2. Sign it in each place: the form, the list of fields and, if you file it, the annex for social security.

  3. Add the owner’s consent if your place of business is someone else’s. Without permanent residence, add a criminal record extract no older than 3 months, unless you’re an EU citizen who last lived here; from outside the EU, add your visa or permit once you have it.

  4. Take it to any trade office or Czech POINT counter and pay the fee there. If everything is in order, you’re in the trade register within 5 working days.

All the paperwork: Registering a trade (trade licence)

The fee, what to bring and when you can start

Setting up for the first time? Set up as self-employed walks you through every step in order, from whether your residence allows it to the tax return and overviews you file each year.

The fee

1,000 Kč for your first notice, however many trades and fields it lists. Each later notice of more trades costs 500 Kč, however many it lists. A Czech POINT counter takes the fee too, with 50 Kč more for passing your filing on. Changing your fields of the free trade later carries no fee, and neither does your first extract from the register.

Where to take it

Any trade office in Czechia, not only the one for your address, in person or by post. A Czech POINT counter takes it too and sends it to the trade office you choose. You can also file the same form online, on the trade register’s portal.

What to bring

  • This form, printed and signed, with its list of fields, and the annex for social security if you file it.
  • Your passport, and your visa or permit if you already have it.
  • If your place of business isn’t your permanent residence, or your permanent residence is at the registration office’s address (ohlašovna): proof that you may use it, such as the owner’s written consent. If you own it, the office checks the land registry itself.
  • A criminal record extract no older than 3 months. You need none with permanent residence here, or as an EU citizen whose last EU country is Czechia: the office then gets your record itself. An EU citizen brings one from their country of citizenship or the last EU country they lived in, or the Czech one with that country’s records in its annex; anyone else, from their country of citizenship.
  • Foreign documents with a Czech translation by a sworn court interpreter, their signatures and stamps verified. An EU citizen’s documents need neither, unless the office has doubts.
  • From outside the EU, your long-stay visa or long-term residence permit, once you have it.
  • The fee, or the receipt if you paid it beforehand.

When you can start

For most people, on the day they notify the trade. If everything is in order, the office enters you in the trade register within 5 working days and gives you an extract.

From outside the EU

If you don’t have your long-stay visa or long-term residence permit yet, you can file anyway: the trade office checks the rest and gives you an extract for that application. Your trade then starts on the day you show it the visa or permit: within 3 working days of reporting your address here, and no later than 6 months after you got the extract. If you show it when you file, your trade starts that day. With international protection, you trade on the same terms as a Czech citizen.

What this form doesn’t cover

We fill the form in for one person notifying a free trade. For the rest, the Ministry of Industry and Trade publishes its own forms:

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